President Magufuli is now able to introduce major social and economic projects to spur transformation and improve the lives of the people . In the social arena , he has introduced free education from primary upto lower level of secondary schools , something that has almost doubled the rates of enrollment in both primary and secondary levels . strategies for implementing measures to ensure there is no longer lavish spending of public or office funds .
President Magufuli is now able to introduce major social and economic projects to spur transformation and improve the lives of the people . In the social arena , he has introduced free education from primary upto lower level of secondary schools , something that has almost doubled the rates of enrollment in both primary and secondary levels . strategies for implementing measures to ensure there is no longer lavish spending of public or office funds .
All of the above actions and many of his decisions to reform the way we govern our country have started to bear fruits ; government revenues are higher than before and the government is now able to fund major social projects than any time before .
The monthly revenue collections jumped from TZS 850 billion to TZS 1.3 trillion monthly . In December 2017 , the Tanzania Revenue Authority ( TRA ) marked a record high revenue collection target by collecting TZS 1.6 trillion from tax revenues .
A big chunk of the increase is due to the elevated anticorruption drive , enforcement of tax collection by cutting off unnecessary tax exemptions and introducing the use of Electronic Fiscal Devices ( EFDs ) for transparency in tax collection . The President also chased out of the government payment system about 19,000 ghost workers and 13,000 other public servants who had not acquired required secondary education level .
From the increased revenues , President Magufuli is now able to introduce major social and economic projects to spur transformation and improve the lives of the people . In the social arena , he has introduced free education from primary upto lower level of secondary schools , something that has almost doubled the rates of enrollment in both primary and secondary levels . He raised the budget for higher education student loans from less than TZS 100 billion three years ago to over TZS 470 billion in 2017 / 18 budget .
The country has seen tremendous improvements in hospitals and school services . In 2015 , the annual budget for essential drugs and other health equipments was TZS 31 billion per annum ; by this year , he raised it to TZS 269 billion per annum leading to an increase of availability of drugs in health centers to above 90 percent from the previous figure of below 50 percent .
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